 Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear ; Robes and furr'd gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks ; Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.  The Plays - Page 369by William Shakespeare - 1824Full view - About this book
 | Kenneth Muir, Stanley Wells - 1982 - 116 pages
...But in my garments (rv, vi, 9-10) and in the same scene (rv, vi) Lear returns to his former argument: Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear; Robes...justice hurtless breaks; Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it. (rv, vi, 168-71) Yet vesture has its positive significance; at the reunion of Cordelia... | |
 | William F. Zak - 1984 - 220 pages
...always have, if more furtively or more cleverly than the poor. The usurer hangs the cozener. Thorough tatter'd clothes [small] vices do appear; Robes and...justice hurtless breaks; Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it. None does offend, none, I say none, I'll able 'em. Take that of me, my friend, who... | |
 | James C. Bulman - 1985 - 276 pages
...it, Lear maintains his pose as absolute ruler and would use his authority to corrupt society further: Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear; Robes...justice hurtless breaks; Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it. None does offend, none, I say, none! I'll able 'em. Take that of me, my friend, who... | |
 | Wolfgang Clemen - 1987 - 232 pages
...lusts to use her in that kind For which thou whipp'st her. The usurer hangs the cozener. 165 Thorough tatter'd clothes small vices do appear; Robes and...justice hurtless breaks; Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it. 169 None does offend, none, I say, none; I'll able 'em: Take that of me, my friend,... | |
 | William R. Elton - 1980 - 388 pages
...transgressors, but not the powerful criminals" (p. 62), precisely the point that Lear emphasizes: Thorough tatter'd clothes small vices do appear; Robes and...justice hurtless breaks; Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it. (IVvi.166-169)1" In Act III Lear had used legal language in connection with the thunder... | |
 | Raman Selden - 1989 - 222 pages
...hotly lusts to use her in that kind For which thou whipp'st her. The usurer hangs the cozener. Thorough tatter'd clothes small vices do appear; Robes and...justice hurtless breaks; Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it. (IV. vi. 151-69) A narrowly humanistic reading of this passage (following the approach... | |
 | James Redmond - 1990 - 250 pages
...rascal beadle, hold thy bloody hand! Why dost thou lash that whore? Strip thy own back; Thou hotly lusts to use her in that kind For which thou whipp'st her....justice hurtless breaks; Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it. None does offend, none, I say, none! I'll able 'em. Take that of me, my friend, who... | |
 | John Casey, John Peter Anthony Casey - 1990 - 260 pages
...everything; 'tis a lie, I am not ague- proof.'40 And he sees human society as pervaded with hypocrisy: Robes and furr'd gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold,...justice hurtless breaks; Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.41 There is something in all this that could be called humility, and more that could... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1990 - 324 pages
...The usurer hangs the cozener. Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; 160 Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold, And the strong...justice hurtless breaks: Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it. None does ofTend, none, I say, none; I'll able 'em : Take that of me, my friend, who... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 176 pages
...her. The usurer hangs the cozener. Through tattered clothes great vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold, And the strong...justice hurtless breaks; Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it. None does offend, none, I say none. I'll able 'em. Take that of me, my friend, who... | |
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